Searching for More Effective Food Baits for Tephritid Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae): Performance of Newly Developed Vial-Lures Relative to Torula Yeast Borax by Walther Enkerlin, Emilio Arevalo, Jose Eduardo Caballero, Thomas Fezza, Esteban Garavelli, Diana Beatriz Martinez, Pedro Alexander Rodriguez, Todd Shelly, Milthon Edgardo Thomas, Antonio Villaseñor, Salvador Flores

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Engaging with patients with diabetes: the role of social media in low-income healthcare organisations by Jose Rodriguez, Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Andrea Cano, Mohy Uddin, Fernanda Caceres

“…Social media platforms, like Facebook, have become crucial channels for healthcare organisations to engage with the public to promote prevention and disease management, especially in low-resource settings like Honduras. This study aims to perform a retrospective analysis of Honduran healthcare organisations’ Facebook posts to understand how effectively they engage diabetes-related content with their followers.Methods The top 10 followed healthcare organisations’ Facebook pages were taken as a sample. …”
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Biodiversity of Lecanosticta pine-needle blight pathogens suggests a Mesoamerican Centre of origin by Ariska van der Nest, Michael J. Wingfield, Paulo C. Ortiz, Irene Barnes

“…These are described here as Lecanosticta jani sp. nov. from Guatemala and Nicaragua, L. pharomachri sp. nov. from Guatemala and Honduras, L. tecunumanii sp. nov. from Guatemala and L. variabilis sp. nov. from Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. …”
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The Model of Open Government in Latin America. Parallelism of Public Policies for Transparency and Corruption by Vera Martínez, Martín Cutberto, Rocha Romero, Martín, Martínez Rodríguez, María Concepción

“…The following article analyzes public policies of administrative reform and related to the institutionalization of access to public information in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. It analyzes these policies in relation with the modernization and improvement of public administration and the fight against corruption.…”
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Effect of Oral Administration with Lactobacillus plantarum CAM6 Strain on Sows during Gestation-Lactation and the Derived Impact on Their Progeny Performance by César Betancur, Yordan Martínez, Guillermo Tellez-Isaias, Rogel Castillo, Xinghua Ding

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La fabrique des héros. Usages politiques de Francisco Morazán en Amérique Centrale au XXe siècle (1942-1992) by Catherine Lacaze

“…The objective is here to determining to what extent the cult of Morazán became more popular during the XXth century, putting emphasis on a comparative perspective at the Central America scale (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica).…”
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El cine mexicano de la edad de oro y su impacto internacional by Maricruz Castro-Ricalde

“…A partir de una investigación documental en publicaciones periódicas de Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Estados Unidos, Honduras, México, Nicaragua y Venezuela, este artículo demuestra el interés que el cine mexicano producido entre 1936 y 1956 provocó en los espectadores de Hispanoamérica y Estados Unidos, al igual que la presencia de actores, cineastas, temas y personajes de otros países hispanohablantes en la industria cinematográfica mexicana durante la denominada edad de oro del cine mexicano. …”
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CAFTA and U.S. Sugar by Andrew Schmitz, Troy G. Schmitz, James L. Seale, Jr.

“… The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is a trade agreement between the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. The agreement was put into law in 2005. …”
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CAFTA and U.S. Sugar by Andrew Schmitz, Troy G. Schmitz, James L. Seale, Jr.

“… The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is a trade agreement between the United States and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. The agreement was put into law in 2005. …”
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Middle income countries? An alternative development taxonomy of Latin America and the Caribbean by TEZANOS VÁZQUEZ, Sergio, QUIÑONES MONTELLANO, Ainoa

“…Using a cluster analysis we identify and characterize three groups of countries in relation to 10 main “development gaps”: the most advanced countries (Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and Brasil), the middle-development countries (Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Belize, El Salvador, Paraguay and Guyana) and those countries with the greatest development challenges (Guatemala, Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua).…”
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Sectoral Growth Dynamics: Inequality Tradeoff and Sustainability in Central America by Manuel Antonio Vanegas Sr

“…The total dampening impact of inequality, varies from 1.1522% for El Salvador to 2.0589% for Honduras, due to a 1% increase in inequality. Reducing inequalities can be doubly beneficial for the extreme poor in Central American countries. …”
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Considerations for determining warm-water coral reef tipping points by P. Pearce-Kelly, A. H. Altieri, J. F. Bruno, C. E. Cornwall, M. McField, A. I. Muñiz-Castillo, J. Rocha, R. O. Setter, C. Sheppard, R. M. Roman-Cuesta, C. Yesson

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Use of participatory forum theatre to explore HIV/AIDS issues in the workplace by Emma Durden, Dominique Nduhura

“…A brief survey of current evaluations in this field reveals such projects in Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, the Netherlands and Honduras, amongst other countries. Forum theatre is reported as being used as a technique to deepen understanding of HIV/AIDS issues in programmes in Georgia, Tanzania, Burkina Faso and South Africa (The Communication Initiative, 2007). …”
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Un Programa de Educación bilingüe en Guatemala. by Celso Shaclan.

“…Se le ubica en el área Centro_americana, compartiendo fronteras con México, al norte y occidente; con Honduras y el Salvador, al oriente; con el Océano Atlántico, al nor-oriente y, con el Océano Pacifico, al sur. …”
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Mobilités internationales et ressources en contexte métropolitain : trajectoires centraméricaines à Mexico by Laurent Faret

“…Beyond transit processes, the short-term or more lasting presence of a mobile population from the Central America’s Northern Triangle (Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala) questions the forms of anchorage in the city and the socio-spatial relationships of these populations with the different urban and metropolitan dynamics. …”
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Antecedentes histórico - jurídicos del diferendo sobre el Archipiélago de San Andrés y Providencia by Jorge Pallares Bossa

“…La finalidad del trabajo es la de resaltar la estrecha vinculación que nuestro país tuvo siempre con Centroamérica y particularmente con la región de la Mosquitia, por cuyo dominio sean registrado pretensiones no solo de Nicaragua y Colombia sino incluso de Costa Rica y hasta de la misma Honduras, y realzar la necesidad que tiene el archipiélago de que para su desarrollo que requiere se le constituya, mediante una reforma constitucional en hecho Insular. …”
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Blockchain y tokenización: Oportunidades y retos para Centroamérica by Fernando Enrique Hernandez Casco

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Familias, pobreza y desigualdad social en Latinoamérica: una mirada comparativa by Marina Ariza, Orlandina de Oliveira

“…Con base en tabulaciones especiales de las encuestas de hogares elaboradas por cepal, comparamos a Argentina y Uruguay que se encuentran en etapas más avanzadas de la primera transición demográfica; Brasil y México que atraviesan por una fase menos avanzada, y Honduras y Nicaragua que, por el contrario, se encuentran en un estadio más temprano de dicha transición. …”
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Latin America’s Los Turcos: Geographic Aspects of Levantine and Maghreb Diasporas by Aaron Moore, Kent Mathewson

“…En este trabajo también se analiza el registro de los turcos en varios países (Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Honduras). El documento pone de relieve aspectos importantes de la experiencia de este grupo, como parte de la diáspora de Oriente Medio en América Latina.…”
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Rural Electrification in Central America and East Africa, two case studies of sustainable microgrids by Andrea MICANGELI, Riccardo DEL CITTO, Francesco CHECCHI, Daniele VIGANÒ, Serge NOUBOUNDIEU, Giulia CESTARI

“…Technical and economic evaluation criteria are applied to study the feasibility of a micro-hydro plant in El Díptamo (Honduras), and a hybrid plant composed of photovoltaic module arrays, Diesel generators, and flow batteries, in a small island on Victoria Lake. …”
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